A Hollow Is a Home by Abbie Mitchell; Astred Hicks
$30.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Age range 5 to 12 Do you know what a tree hollow is? To you and me, a tree hollow is just a hole, cavity or tunnel in a tree or branch. But to an animal, that hollow may be a bedroom, hiding place, nursery or shelter. It is the ultimate tree house! Come and take a peek inside the amazing world of tree h ...Show more
Wilam: A Birrarung Story by Aunty Joy Murphy
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Wilam: A Birrarung Story is one day on a vital, flourishing river. As ngua rises, Bunjil soars over mountain ash, flying higher and higher as the wind warms. Below, Birrarung begins its long winding path down to palem warreen. Wilam – home. Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly joins award-winning picture book ...Show more
Louie and Snippy: Save the Sea by Collette Dinnigan
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: New Illustrator
Louie and Snippy: Save the Sea is a story of a little boy whose love of the ocean takes him, and the reader, on an incredible underwater journey. Louie and his trusty companion, Snippy the dog, dive into the ocean and are surrounded by brilliant coral reefs. But they soon discover that human rubbish - b ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more
Three by Stephen Michael King
$24.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Picture Book
One, two, three . . . Every day was a hop and a skip for Three. He was happy to walk from here to there, wherever his nose led, or wherever his legs took him . . . all the way to new friends.
Searching for Cicadas by Lesley Gibbes Lesley; Judy Watson Judy
$26.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Series: Nature Storybooks Ser. | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
This lovely story about a child and their grandfather searching for cicadas is part of the award-winning narrative nonfiction Nature Storybooks series. In the summertime, Grandpa and I go cicada-watching. We put our camping gear into my wagon and walk down to the local reserve. Last year we saw five Gre ...Show more
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature by Pierre-Jacques Ober
$34.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Series: Miniature | Reading Level: Picture Book
A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux. About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French s ...Show more
Tilly by Jane Godwin
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Picture Book
Tilly's found the perfect hiding place to keep her special treasures. No one knows about it, not even her big brothers and sister, who know everything. But one day, something happens that Tilly could never have imagined... Jane Godwin and Anna Walker have created a wistful, enchanting and timeless story ...Show more
I NEED a Parrot by Chris McKimmie
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Picture Book
But what does a parrot need?A book about wanting and needing what a child wants and what a wild bird needs.
Hello Lighthouse by Sophie Blackall
$16.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Picture Book
Winner of the 2019 Caldecott Medal A lavish new picture book from Caldecott-winner Sophie Blackall that will transport readers to the seaside in timeless, nautical splendor! Watch the days and seasons pass as the wind blows, the fog rolls in, and icebergs drift by. Outside, there is water all arou ...Show more
Goodbye House, Hello House by Margaret Wild
$25.00 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Series: Australian | Reading Level: Early Childhood
A joyful story about moving house and embracing change from a much-loved, award-winning team. This is the last time I'll fish in this river. This is the last time I'll run through these trees. This is the last time I'll dream by this fire ... Goodbye, old house. Goodbye. A heartwarming story of letti ...Show more
Nop by Caroline Magerl
$26.99 AUD
Category: CBCA Shortlist 2020 | Reading Level: Picture Book
A heartwarming picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Caroline Magerl about two unlikely loners who forge a forever friendship. Nop is a scruffy kind of bear. He sits on a dusty armchair in Oddmint's Dumporeum surrounded by the beaders, knitters, patchers and stitchers who are much too busy ...Show more